Flying to India

India has fairly extensive direct air connections to all the continents (ca 55 countries) except South and Central America where currently no direct flights are available from India. Around 80 international airlines fly presently to India. Air India (incl. Air India Express, a low-cost regional carrier),
India's national airline, flies to destinations in Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe and North America. Jet Airways, a private Indian airline, flies to regional destinations including Kathmandu, Bangkok, Colombo, Singapore, Riyadh, Damman, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Doha, Dubai, Jeddah, Kuwait, Muscat and Sharjah in addition to serving long-haul destinations including London, Amsterdam, Paris and Toronto. Spicejet serves South Asian destinations while IndiGo, another Indian low-cost carrier, serves regional destinations including Dubai, Muscat, Kathmandu, Singapore and Bangkok. GoAir commenced international air services in Oct '18 initially serving Phuket and Malé.

The main international gateway airports in India are located at Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Kochi, Kolkata, Chennai and Hyderabad. Other airports having international flights include Thiruvananthapuram, Tiruchirappalli, Mangaluru, Madurai, Coimbatore, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam and Kozhikode in the southern region - Goa, Pune, Surat and Ahmedabad in western India - Varanasi, Amritsar, Lucknow and Jaipur in northern India - Nagpur in central India and Bhubaneswar, Gaya and Guwahati in eastern India. Kerala's fourth international airport at Kannur began commercial operations in Dec '18.

Poland's national airline LOT Polish Airlines has announced a comeback in India with a new 5xweekly nonstop service from the airline's hub at Warsaw Chopin airport to Delhi using Boeing 787-8 aircraft. The service will commence on Sep 17. LOT used to fly to Bombay between 1977 and 1982 using Ilyushin-62 jet aircraft. The airline also served Delhi from 1985 till 1992. The widebody fleet of the airline includes 11 Boeing 787 -8/9 series aircraft.

Delta Airlines: Atlanta or New York City (JFK) to Mumbai (schedule TBA)

Ethiopian Airlines: Addis Ababa to Bengaluru or Chennai

Finnair: Helsinki to Chennai

Icelandair: Reykjavík (Keflavík) to either Delhi or Mumbai (possible launch in H2/19)

Philippine Airlines: Manila to Mumbai

VietJet: Ho Chi Minh City to Delhi

A Qatar Airways Airbus A330-300 "Snowbird" parked at Helsinki Airport. The airline operates upto 15 daily flights from its Doha Hamad International Airport hub to 13 destinations in India. Qatar Airways operates an extensive global network with direct air connections to some 160 destinations from Doha.Singapore Airlines operates 28 Airbus A350-900 aircraft with a three-class configuration. The airline operates a daily Airbus A350 service from Singapore to Mumbai in addition to a total of 10 weekly service using Boeing 777 and Airbus A330 aircraft. SIA plans to operate a thrice-weekly Airbus A350-900XWB service (in addition to a daily Boeing 777-200 service) effective May 17. Other Indian cities served by Singapore Airlines include Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi and Kolkata. SIA operates a daily Boeing 787-10 service on the Singapore-Delhi route in addition to a daily Airbus A380 service.Air Italy's first Boeing 737 MAX 8 jet seen here at Palermo Falcone-Borsellino Airport. Air Italy launched a new air service from Milan (Malpensa) to Delhi and another service from Milan (Malpensa) to Mumbai in Dec '18. The airline operates Airbus A330 aircraft on these routes. Both routes are served 3xweekly. Unfortunately the airline has announced the close-down of both its Indian services. The Milan-Mumbai route has been terminated and the Milan-Delhi service will cease operating Mar 31. The originating traffic between India and Italy is probably not large enough to provide enough business for all the present airlines (ie Air India, Alitalia and Air Italy) which provide direct air services between the two countries.

One of Lufthansa's Airbus A380 aircraft is named "Delhi". Lufthansa operates a daily Airbus A380 service from Frankfurt to Delhi. The two other airlines flying Airbus A380 aircraft to India are Emirates (Dubai to Mumbai) and Singapore Airlines (Singapore to Delhi).

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Ethiopian Airlines presently operates 10xweekly services from Addis Ababa to Delhi and a double daily service to Mumbai.Finnair uses Airbus A330 equipment on the Helsinki to Delhi route with 4-7 flights a week. Finnair will terminate its 2xweekly service to Goa at the end of the 2018/19 winter season after serving the holiday destination for 25 years.

International Air Routes to India - Indian Airline Operators

Air India flies to New York (JFK), Washington, D.C, Newark, Birmingham (UK), Copenhagen, Stockholm, Chicago, London (Heathrow), Paris (CDG), Madrid, Milan, Rome, Vienna, Frankfurt, Colombo, Dhaka, Kabul, Kathmandu, Yangon, Male, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Seoul, Tokyo (Narita), Osaka, San Francisco, Sydney, Melbourne and Tel Aviv. Gulf destinations include Abu Dhabi, Damman, Dubai, Jeddah, Kuwait, Riyadh and Sharjah. Air India also operates nonstop services from both Ahmedabad and Bengaluru to London (Heathrow), a nonstop service from Amritsar to Birmingham and a direct service (via Delhi) from Hyderabad to Chicago. All other long-haul flights originate from either Air India's main hub Delhi or Mumbai.

International Air Routes to India - Overseas Airline Operators

From North America

United flies daily from Newark to both Delhi and Mumbai. United has announced the launch of a new seasonal daily air service from San Francisco to Delhi wef Dec 5 using Boeing 787-9 aircraft.

Air Canada operates a daily nonstop service between Toronto and Delhi using Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft and flies 6xweekly from Vancouver to Delhi. The Delhi-Vancouver route will be served year-round and daily wef Jun 2. The airline's Toronto to Mumbai service will operate 4xweekly until Mar and thereafter operate as a seasonal (winter) nonstop 4xweekly service from Toronto to Mumbai wef Oct 27. Air Canada operate the Boeing 777-200LR aircraft with 40 business, 24 Premium Economy and 236 Econeomy seats on the Toronto to Mumbai service.

From Europe

Aeroflot flies 2xdaily from Moscow (Sheremetyevo) to Delhi.

Air France flies from Paris CDG to Delhi (daily) and Bengaluru (6xweekly). The earlier Mumbai service is operated by Joon.

Air Italy began serving India with the introduction of a pair of 3xweekly air services from Milan to both Delhi (4xweekly wef Mar 31) and Mumbai in Dec '18. Like WOW air, the new Air Italy routes turned out to be short-lived. The Delhi service will be discontinued wef Mar 31 and the Mumbai service has been terminated.

Joon, an Air France subsidiary, operates a daily service from Paris CDG to Mumbai.

KLM flies daily from Amsterdam to Delhi and 4xweekly to Mumbai.

Lufthansa flies daily from Frankfurt to Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi (Airbus A380) and Mumbai. Lufthansa also offers daily flights from Munich to both Delhi and Mumbai (Airbus A350 wef Mar 31). Lufthansa also uses Airbus A350 equipment on the Munich-Delhi sector, the airline's inaugural route for this aircraft type. The Frankfurt to Chennai service is operated by Lufthansa CityLine. Lufthansa also offers a 4xweekly service from Frankfurt to Pune air route with a technical stop at Baku. The Pune service will be operated at least till end-Jan.

Swiss International flies daily from Zurich to both Mumbai and Delhi.

Virgin Atlantic flies daily from London to Delhi.

From CIS Countries

Air Astana flies daily from Almaty to Delhi and 3xweekly from Astana to Delhi.

Avia Traffic Company operates a biweekly air service from Bishkek to Delhi.

Tajik Air flies 2xweekly from Dushanbe to Delhi.

Turkmenistan flies 5xweekly from Ashgabat to Amritsar and 3xweekly to Delhi.

Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) flies 5xweekly from Kiev to Delhi.

Uzbekistan Airways serves Delhi 6xweekly and Amritsar 4xweekly from Tashkent. Four of these flights are combined services to both Amritsar and Delhi. The airline also flies 3xweekly from Tashkent to Mumbai.

From Central and West Asia

Air Arabia flies 2xdaily from Sharjah to Delhi, Kochi and Mumbai, daily to Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Kozhikode, Jaipur and Chennai, 2xdaily to Thiruvananthapuram, 4xweekly to Nagpur and 5xweekly to both Coimbatore and Goa.

Ethiopian Airlines flies 2xdaily from Addis Ababa to Mumbai and 9xweekly to Delhi.

Kenya Airways flies 12xweekly from Nairobi to Mumbai.

RwandAir operates a 4xweekly nonstop air service from Kigali to Mumbai served by Boeing 737-800 aircraft.

From South Asia

Bhutan Airlines flies 4xweekly from Paro and Bangkok to Kolkata, 2xweekly from Paro to Delhi via Kathmandu and 3xweekly from Paro to Bangkok via Gaya (seasonal).

Biman Bangladesh Airlines flies 12xweekly from Dhaka to Kolkata and 2xweekly from Chattogram to Kolkata.

Buddha Air operates a twice weekly air service using ATR 42 aircraft from Kathmandu to Varanasi. A 3xweekly service from Kathmandu to Kolkata will commence on Apr 15.

Druk Air (Royal Bhutan Airlines), Bhutan's national airline, flies from Paro to Guwahati, Delhi (some flights operate via Kathmandu), Kolkata (10xweekly), Gaya (seasonal) and Bagdogra. Guwahati is connected 2xweekly to Singapore and Paro. Pakyong is served by a twice-weekly flight from Paro while Kolkata is connected 3xweekly with Bangkok. Drukair also flies from Guwahati to Paro and Bangkok.

Maldivian flies daily from Malé International Airport to Thiruvananthapuram and 4xweekly to Chennai (and onwards to Dhaka) and 2xweekly from Hanimaadhoo to Thiruvananthapuram.

MAI flies 3xweekly (seasonally) from Yangon to Gaya and 2xweekly to Kolkata.

Nepal Airlines flies 2xdaily from Kathmandu to Delhi and 3xweekly to both Mumbai and Bengaluru.

Novoair operates a daily service from Kolkata to Dhaka.

Regent Airways flies 10xweekly from Dhaka to Kolkata and daily from Chattogram to Kolkata.

Air China flies 5xweekly from Beijing to Delhi and 4xweekly to from Beijing to Mumbai.

All Nippon Airways (ANA) operates daily services from Tokyo Narita airport to both Delhi and Mumbai. ANA has announced a new daily air service to be operated from Tokyo Narita to Chennai starting in late '19 (winter schedule).

NokScoot, a Thailand based LCC operates a 4xweekly service from its base at Don Mueang airport, Bangkok to Delhi using Boeing 777-200ER aircraft.

Scoot flies from Singapore to Amritsar 3xweekly, daily to Chennai, daily to Bengaluru, 6xweekly to Hyderabad, 4xweekly to Jaipur, 4xweekly to Kochi, 3xweekly to Lucknow and 2xdaily to Tiruchirappalli. The services to Bengaluru and Chennai will be taken over by Silk Air/Singapore Airlines in May and May '20 respectively. Service to Kochi will be discontinued by Scoot and served by Silk Air. The Singapore to Thiruvananthapuram route (5xweekly) served by Silk Air will be operated by Scoot wef May 9. Likewise the Singapore to Coimbatore (5xweekly) and Visakhapatnam (3xweekly) routes presently served by Silk Air will be replaced by Scoot wef Oct 27.

Shandong Airlines operates two bi-weekly services from Qingdao and Jinan to Delhi, both flights via Kunming.

Silk Air flies from Singapore to Chennai (3xweekly), Bengaluru (5xweekly), Kolkata (4xweekly), Thiruvananthapuram (5xweekly, discontinued wef May), Kochi (12xweekly - to be increased to 14xweekly wef Oct 27), Hyderabad (10xweekly), 4xweekly to Coimbatore and 3xweekly to Visakhapatnam. The services to Coimbatore and Visakhapatnam will be taken over by Scoot in Oct. Silk Air will be merged with Singapore Airlines.

Thai Lion Air operates a 5xweekly service from Bangkok (Don Mueang) to Mumbai.

Thai Smile Air flies 3xweekly from Bangkok to Gaya (via Varanasi), 3xweekly to Jaipur, 3xweekly to Lucknow, 5xweekly (daily wef Mar 31) to Mumbai and 3xweekly to Varanasi. A new 5xweekly service from Bangkok (Suvarnabhumi) to Kolkata will commence on Mar 31.